Steve’s tomatoes (at 8,200 feet) are much riper than ours. With two layers of plastic, his hoop house is like a jungle… during the day.
Most of the crop is tucked under the leaves, but you can see a cluster of ripening tomatoes in the lower right hand corner.
They are much rosier than ours, but production is just beginning.
Here is a Cherokee Purple that has the possibility of darkening up (unlike ours)
and these are nearly ready to harvest. But it’s starting to get very cold at night.
It seems as though every time I see him, Steve is puzzling out improvements to the system. Here he’s adding another length of pipe filled with water that heats up during the day; the water is pumped into the greenhouse where it releases its heat at night.
Thomas Jefferson said,
- I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Hey, thanks for the update…Steve works so hard, hope he gets to harvest all those beauties. We take tomatoes for granted here on the east coast…what must they cost per lb out your way? Whatever, I’m sure their worth every bit. Way to go Steve!
I’ve heard some goody things about this blog. cheers!
Hi Acai Berries - This is a wonderful blog - I always learn a lot from it, and Alice’s photos are wonderful! and she graciously shares them with the rest of us.
Nice work Steve! You’ve got some fine looking tomatoes.